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Chelsea Hobbs gave birth to her second child, a boy at the end of April and today the Make It or Break It star walked the red carpet at Teen Choice Awards and showed off her post-baby body! Doesn’t she look freaking fantastic? It is as if she was never pregnant because she already has Emily Kmetko’s muscular body back!
BTW when I spoke with ABC Family’s President, Michael Riley about the future of Make It or Break It, he told me that no decision has been made yet if and when the show will be back. I really hope he decides to bring it back because this show has been just as strong as the character’s are suppose to be!
Tonight is the season finale of In Plain Sight on USA at 10p and it is the best episode of the season. Tonight is Brandi’s wedding and she is starting to have cold feet. Mary is trying to calm her down, until she gets lucky when she is called away on a case. Well lucky until a quick in and out turns into something more and the Marshalls getting shot at. Will she be able to make it back to the wedding alive? Besides Mary dealing with her sister’s wedding, she is also dealing with the father of her unborn child finding out that he is going to be father.
A big part of the season was Mary McCormack’s real life pregnancy and earlier this week Frederick Weller and her talked to us about the new addition to the show with a few of us on a conference call. Mary told us she knew she was pregnant before she started filming the second part of the fourth season, but kept her pregnancy secret at the beginning.
She said, “Oh, you know, I mean, when I – I knew I was pregnant. Obviously, I got pregnant sort of right before I showed up for the season, but I couldn’t really tell anyone. I told Fred of course right away, but I didn’t tell anyone else because I was afraid at my age, you’re, you know, it’s obviously really risky. And so, when I told the President of the Network and then the showrunners, we told the showrunners together, it was further along and we had to make a decision fast about what we were going to do. And Jeff Wachtel, who I think is really – has such a keen sense of story and drama, he’s the President of USA, he sort of said, ‘You know, this is, in a weird way,’ I mean we discussed first my wishes and whether I was willing to write it in, and I was. And then, we started talking about the pros and cons story-wise and character-wise, and he was sort of excited about it, you know, as long as I was comfortable with it. He was excited about the opportunities that it would create for Season 4, because I think, you know, shows have to – his point was line in Season 4 he looks to – he looks for showrunners or he looks for the creator to shake things up, because otherwise things can get pretty stale. And so we all decided to do it, and then we had to move fast, story-wise. I think the writers had a ten-day hiatus already scheduled, which worked out great, because they rewrote a bunch of stories and came up with, you know, Mark being the father of the baby and what it would mean, and how it would change the shape of the season, so they had to work really fast and they did a great job.”
If you are in the minority like me and wanted her real life baby to be fathered by Marshall on the show, they both told us that they did not want that just yet. Mary said, “when we made that decision, so it had to be someone – you know, we needed to – I think if it had been Marshall we would have skipped so many steps and I think the audience would have felt robbed.” Fred added, “I think that Mary and Marshall should and will hook up at some point, but it’s a little bit like the Escape from Gilligan’s Island. I mean, what comes after it is going to be tricky.”
Now that has been cleared up, what won’t be cleared up until season 5 is if Mary will keep her baby. In fact the actors don’t know what will happen next.
And on that note, here’s a little personal tidbit; Mary doesn’t know the sex of her baby that is due next month nor does she have a name picked out. So I suggested she go with her co-star Frederick’s name and he agreed!
Marley & Me: The Puppy Years is coming out on DVD on August 16th exclusively to WalMart and to honor the release of the prequel they are having a day dedicated to the four-legged friends of the film at The Grove in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 13th.
If you have a furry friend and want to make Man’s Best Friend feel like a pampered pooch you can come out to The Grove to make them feel like a star.
Starting at 2pm, your dog can experience:
· The Ultimate Puppy Championship – Test Your Dog’s Agility on the Special Course Presented by Zoom Room
· Shelter Dog Fashion & Runway Show Featuring the Summer & Fall Lines from Ruff Ruff Couture
· Marley Photo Booth – Get Your Picture Taken with the Adorable Little Star
· Booths promoting pet adoption from spcaLA, LA Animal Services and Best Friends
· Doggie Spaw and Relaxation Area with Free Nail Painting and Massages for Your Animal
· Doggie Treat and Dining Area
· “Stupid Dog Tricks†Contest
· VIP Gift Bag Raffles Presented by Stella & Chewy’s Treats and Three Dog Bakery
· World Premiere Screening with Marley and his Pooch Pals Walking the Red Carpet and Strutting Their Stuff
Sounds like a lot of fun for them, but what about us two-legged people who walk and feed them? Starting at 7:30p they will be screening the movie for FREE on the lawn. I saw the Marley & Me: The Puppy Years yesterday and let me tell you not only did they give the World’s Worst Dog a voice, they made him even more arfdorable.
So whether you are a dog, own one, wanted one or none of the above; next Saturday will be a lot of fun no matter how many legs you walk on. Well unless you are a cat then that is a different story.
Today is the ABC TCA Summer Press Tour Day and Marc Cherry confirmed that this will be the last season of Desperate Housewives. He told us the decision to say goodbye to Wisteria Lane has been a year in the making. When he first met the new head of ABC a year ago for lunch, he then started discussing the end of the show and said he wanted to end it on a high note. Whether that meant season 8 or season 9 he wasn’t sure. Together the two of them came to decision to end it now and not letting it limp off of TV like so many other shows.
When asked about the reaction from the cast, he told us he had just started talking to the cast about it on Friday and he has only spoken to half of them about the show ending this season. So in other words most of them finding out via the press and not him even though he has known about it.
Even though he has not spoken to everyone, he did share with us what he told Eva Longoria when he was asked if there will be a spinoff to the show. He told her he wants to put her in a van and have her solve mysteries. Paul Lee, ABC’s Entertainment President said he was sold on the idea.
Although he is sold on the idea, Cherry says he doesn’t want to repeat himself and that there will be no spinoff to the show. You know like on his first show The Golden Girls that became Golden Palace.
Now back to the final season of the show. Cherry says the show will go back to its roots with Mary Alice. But ABC described something different in a press release that went out this morning. They said “For Season Eight, Carlos’s murder of Gaby’s evil stepfather and the cover up by Susan, Gaby, Bree and Lynette has far reaching effects. Feelings of guilt begin to overcome everyone in different ways. Susan starts to withdraw from her friends and family, and Gaby works to reach out to Carlos while his guilt weighs heavily upon him. As Lynette and Tom are grappling with their disintegrating marriage and impending separation, Lynette is having trouble making the right choices ever since she participated in the cover-up. And Bree must be especially careful around her new love, Detective Chuck Vance. Meanwhile a new sexy neighbor moves to town, Ben Faulkner, and he’s Renee’s first order of business.”
Are you looking forward to the end of Desperate Housewives?
UPDATE: Eva Longoria Tweeted about the show coming to end and said, “It’s confirmed! We are filming our last season of Desperate Housewives! I am so grateful for what the show has given me! We always knew we wanted to end on top and I thank ABC for giving us our victory lap! And a special thanks to Marc Cherry who forever changed my life! #DesperateHousewives”
UPDATE 2: Here is the final season preview that they showed at the ABC TCA Summer Press Tour Day. A lot of good memories in nearly two minutes of clips!
Harper Seven Beckham isn’t even a month old and the awwwdorable little girl already has her daddy wrapped around her little finger! Looking at that picture that her proud mama Victoria Beckham Tweeted, how can she not win over anyone that sees her. Seriously isn’t the youngest child from Becks and Posh Spice just as beautiful as her parents?
BTW I love that her parents haven’t tried to make a buck off of her and are posting pictures of her for free on Twitter and Facebook. Take that sell out celebrity parents.
